To:LYDIA FOTIEVA

Written:Written on May 27, 1920Published:First published in 1945 inLenin Miscellany XXXV.

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      Moscow,Volume 44,

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Addto the Moscow and Petrograd Soviets (in
communicating today’s decision on market
gardens)[2]that we are also
expecting them to adopt measures for taking stock of and
confiscating surpluses from the suburban market
gardeners.[1]

[1]Thedocument bears a note by Fotieva: “In the minutes or
only in the telephone message?” in which V. I. Lenin underlined three
times the words “only in the telephone message”.—Ed.

[2]Leninis referring to the decision of the C.P.C. of May 27, 1920,
on food resources, directing the Moscow and Petrograd Soviets
“to give special attention to the need to increase the amount of
market-garden products obtained from the environs of the
capitals this year and to submit to the C.P.C. within a fortnight their
proposals for possible measures”. =

(Collected Works, Fifth Ed.,
Vol. 51, p. 427.)